Bateleur eagles story, it actually was a very interesting one and it goes back to the Kansas City Zoo. When I was at Kansas City, we had white-tailed sea eagles and they had only been bred at one other place and that was the Vienna Zoo. Golly, I think in 1965 perhaps. We had a nice pair of white-tailed sea eagles. I thought well, I’m want to build a platform for them, I wanna build an nest for them. And we had an old mechanic who had great welding skills. So, I sit down with him and say, “Okay, Jimmy, I’d like to build a platform but we don’t wanna put a flat platform because the sticks will fall off and everything, we need to have something that it’ll fit in, like a basket.” Well, he got some steel and got some I-beams and whatever and he created this perfect little square basket that had sides that went down on it and had a nice bottom on it. Must have weighed a ton.
